SI 502 Networked Computing: Storage, Communication and Processing

Week 1: Introduction, course logistics, and overview
Week 2: The Little Man Computer (LMC) model; LMC programs; Representation of information
Week 3: Computer Architecture and Operating Systems
Week 4: Programming Languages and Programming Concepts
Week 5: Compilers and Interpreters; Software Development
Week 6: Running Time of Algorithms
Week 7: Communication networks; latency and bandwidth; IP and DNS protocol concepts
Week 8: HTTP, HTML, and Web Servers; P2P and Client-Server architectures
Week 9: XML, RSS, SOAP and standards
Week 10: Security and Cryptography
Week 11: Middleware components: databases, version control systems, registries
Week 12: Application Platforms
Week 13: Policy implications, privacy and digital rights management, regulation